Bayern Munich starts a twelfth consecutive season in the group stages of the Champions League (CL), with last season’s Round-of-16 elimination to Liverpool the first time they’ve failed to reach the quarter-finals since 2010/11. Their recent record in the group stages of the competition at home has been phenomenal (W14, D1, L0).
Those 15 group stage home games have seen Bayern score 47 goals at an average of 3.13 per game, and keep ten clean sheets. That strength at the back hasn’t been evident this season though, with five of their six domestic games seeing them concede, with the last four against them coming in the first half.
Red Star Belgrade have made it through to the CL group stage for a second successive season after negotiating four qualifying rounds. They finished bottom of their group last season (W1, D1, L4), losing each of their away games to higher-seeded teams by at least a two-goal margin. [Read more…] about Bayern Munchen vs FK Crvena zvezda 19.9.2019